Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Motoki Furukawa

Tatsuro Mitani

Yoshihiro Kishita

A semiconductor device comprising a compound semiconductor substrate whose surface is provided with a source region, a drain region and an interventing channel region; a source electrode formed on said source region; a drain electrode mounted on said drain region; and a 3-ply gate electrode formed on said channel region and consisting of a high melting metal layer, a barrier metal layer and a gold layer in that order.

Semiconductor device with a 3-ply gate electrode

Disclosed is a method for forming a conductor pattern which comprises the steps of forming a conductive layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming a photoresist film on the conductive layer, removing that portion of the photoresist film located on a conductor pattern forming region of the conductive layer, forming a first masking metal film over the whole surface of the resultant structure, removing the photoresist film along with that portion of the first masking metal film formed thereon so that a portion of the first masking film remains on the conductor pattern forming region of the conductive layer to form a first masking metal pattern, and selectively removing the conductive layer by anisotropic etching to form the conductor pattern. Since the selective removal of the conductor layer is accomplished by the use of the metal pattern as a mask, it is possible to form a much finer conductor pattern than is obtained with the use of the photoresist pattern as the mask.

Method for forming a conductor pattern using lift-off

A method of forming an electrode pattern on a surface of a semiconductor substrate which comprises the steps of forming a metal film which is vulnerable to a reactive ion etching on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming on the metal film another metal film which is vulnerable to an ion milling but is resistant to the reactive ion etching, forming a resist pattern on the another metal film, selectively etching the another metal film by the ion milling using the resist pattern as a mask, and selectively etching the metal film by the reactive ion etching using the another metal film as a mask. A semiconductor device having an electrode pattern as formed by the above method is also disclosed.

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Yokohama, Japan

Motoki Furukawa